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O. G. UDELL.

CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 290,501. Patented Dec. 18, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT Urricn.

CALVIN G. UDELL, OF NORTH INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,501, dated December 18, 1883. Application filed March 1,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- 7

Be itknown that I, CALVIN G. UDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improved Ring-Support with Clamp- Fastcning for the Upright Posts and Horizontal Rods of Clothes-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in clothcsrachs, in which a ring having a web and side clainpinglugs operates in conjunction with the upright posts and horizontal rods of aclothes-rack; and the object of my improve ment is to provide the upright posts of a clothesrack with a ring adapted to hold the rods, and to permit the rods to be swung around on the posts, each post forming a support for the rods, and at the same time forming a pivot for the rods to be swung on. This object I accomplish by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan or top View of the ring with web and rod clamping lugs. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same without the rod. Fig. 3 represents an end View of the ring with the rod clamped on the web. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one end of arod, showing a slit cut in its end,in which the web of the ring is inserted. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a section of one of the upright posts, showing the ring in position, with one end of a rod made fast-to the web by the clamps, and also showing the other end of another rod firmly secured in the upright. Fig. 6

represents a side view of the ring, with the web located near the top of the ring, and Fig. 7 is an elevation of three sections of rack united together by my improved ring.

A represents a metallic ring, with hole B to receive the upright posts H H. One side of the ring A has a fiat projecting part or web 0. Said web may be located near the center of the ring vertically; but I prefer it to projcct from the ring near its top edge, as in Fig.

6. Said web 0 has one or more upward and downward projecting flanges or lugs, a a. a a, cast on the edges, as shown.

The ring device is made from malleable metal. One end of each rod D is provided with a slit, G, in which is inserted the web 0 of the ring A, and the flanges a. a a aare then bent tightly against the sides of the rods, thus firmly clamping the slittcd end of th e rod D to the ring, as shown in Figs. 3, 5, and '7. One section of the rack-frame, preferably, is firmly framed together, as shown in the middle section of Fig. 7,bythc rods D, which are secured at each end into the uprights H H. The rods D have one end inserted in one upright, and the other ends provided with the ring-fastening, as shown in Figs. 5 and 7.

Any number of bars and posts may thus be united, as shown in Fig. 7. The bottom of eachring rests on the stationary ends of the rods D, and the rings are prevented from rising up by the pins 1), which are inserted in the posts, as shown.

I am aware that it is not new to unite the horizontal bars of clothes'rachs with the upright posts of the same by rings attached to the extremities of the bars and encircling the posts; hence I make no claim to such structure, broadly.

. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the ring A, having the shank 0, provided with the flexible clamps a, of the post H, surrounded by the ring, the pin I), inserted into said post above the ring, the bar D, inserted in said post beneath the ring, and the bar D, provided with the slit G to receive the shank or web of the ring, substantially as anchfor the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

-CALVIN G. UDELL.

'Witnesses:

E. O. FRINK, G. H. Rnnnnrr. 

